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The ballots have been cast, the votes have been counted – and now we are delighted finally to announce the winners of the MHM Book Awards. Earlier this year, we curated a list of the best military history titles of 2023, and asked you, our valued readers, to vote for your favourite. Our selection included some of the best researched, most insightful, and most readable titles reviewed or otherwise featured in the magazine over the past year. The full list of winners is given below.
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MHM BOOK OF THE YEAR
WINNER – GOLD AWARD
The Savage Storm: The battle for Italy, 1943
James Holland seeks to explore the campaign to seize Italy from the build-up of the landings at Salerno in September 1943 through to the Battle of Ortona in December the same year. The significance of the Italian campaign is vividly illustrated for a new audience through a compelling narrative, making The Savage Storm a remarkable achievement by a historian at the height of his powers.
The Savage Storm: the battle for Italy, 1943, James Holland, Bantam Press
WINNER – SILVER AWARD
Women in Intelligence: The hidden history of two World Wars
Helen Fry’s latest book explores the lives of the many hundreds of women who worked in intelligence gathering in Britain and abroad over 30 years, as ‘intelligencers, codebreakers, spies, secret operatives, handlers, and double agents’. The detail of Women in Intelligence not only demonstrates the thoroughness of Fry’s research, but also shows that, without the contribution of women, the outcome of both World Wars would have been very different.
Women in Intelligence: The hidden history of two World Wars, Helen Fry, Yale Books
WINNER – BRONZE AWARD
Footsloggers: An infantry battalion at war 1939-45
Britain’s ‘poor bloody infantry’ did most of her fighting and dying during World War II. Peter Hart has put together a compelling portrait of just one of those units, the 16th Durham Light Infantry (DLI), chronicling all the boredom, horror, and humour of their war. Footsloggers is an authentic account, whose universal truths about frontline soldiering will resonate with readers of every generation.
Footsloggers: an infantry battalion at war 1939-45, Peter Hart, Profile Books
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